Deconstructing spiritual well‐being: existential well‐being and HRQOL in cancer survivors

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 15 May 2007 English Publisher:WileyJournal:Psycho-Oncology, volume 17, pages 161-169 (issn: 1057-9249, eissn: 1099-1611,

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Authors: Donald, Edmondson; Crystal L, Park; Thomas O, Blank; Juliane R, Fenster; Mary Alice, Mills;

doi: 10.1002/pon.1197

pmid: 17506077

Deconstructing spiritual well‐being: existential well‐being and HRQOL in cancer survivors

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AbstractWe demonstrate the utility of partitioning the spiritual well‐being (SpWB) construct into spiritual and religious components using results from a study of the relationship of existential well‐being to health‐related quality of life (HRQOL) in a sample of 237 cancer survivors. Existential and religious well‐being were measured using the FACIT‐Sp‐12 and HRQOL was measured using the mental and physical component scores of the SF‐12. In hierarchical linear regression analyses, existential well‐being fully mediated religious well‐being's effect on HRQOL and explained unique variance in both the mental and physical HRQOL domains, controlling for demographic, disease, and psychosocial variables previously shown to impact HRQOL. Religious well‐being was not predictive of HRQOL. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Adult, Male, Existentialism, Middle Aged, Neoplasms, Surveys and Questionnaires, Quality of Life, Humans, Female, Spirituality, Survivors

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